Malta: A Childhood Under Siege | A memoir of WWII in Malta (Part 1)

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Linda Peek, author of Malta: A Childhood Under Siege speaks with Joe Axiaq about the story of her mother, Margaret in Malta as a child during World War 2. The book ‘Malta – a childhood under siege’, was launched successfully in Sydney and Canberra.


Margaret Staples was nine years old at the beginning of 1939 when her father was posted to the British colony of Malta with the Royal Engineers. Swimming every day, with blue skies and balmy weather; Margaret and her siblings thought they were in paradise. Everything changed when the Second World War broke out.

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